Word: prom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAST KISS 'GOODNIGHT' blared the tabloid headlines in New York City last spring. The story told of a Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt...
...next three years, the so-called "10-10-10" proposal. On the other was House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski and his fellow congressional Democrats, who favor a smaller tax cut offered for one year at a time. Like proud and coquettish students at a prom, each has been eyeing the other, hoping for an invitation to dance. Last week, with congressional Republicans acting as chaperons, they began edging toward one another in a series of private meetings-at the White House, the Treasury Department, in a Capitol hideaway-that laid the groundwork for a possible compromise...
...points. The coach had kept his mean streak going by insulting journalists, throwing his entire team out of practice and feuding with his star guard, All-American Isiah Thomas. Knight and the Hoosiers lived up to their billings in Philadelphia, storming through the Final Four like panzers at a prom. Indiana cowed a talented Louisiana State University team in the semifinals, then mercilessly picked apart Coach Dean Smith's elegantly orchestrated North Carolina Tar Heels in the championship game. And for good measure, Knight decked an L.S.U. fan, leaving him slumped in a trash...
...only are things not what they used to be, but it is so long since they were what they were that few can remember what they might have been. Indeed, one of the main uses of these big compendiums of current art is to enable the watchers on the prom ontory to vent such lamentations. In a world of instability and doubt, now that modernism is formally over but art keeps obdurately being made, one of the mottoes of the conservative critics is Ishmael's in Moby Dick: "The drama's done. Why then here does...
...proposals that hold the most prom ise in experts' eyes, like speedy trials and penal reform, are widely deemed to be too expensive ever to come to pass...